Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
November 2023
August 2023
Perpetual copyright
July 2023
Subtracting Homogeneity
for the sake of realism
May 2023
Write What You Want to Know: Building Cultures of Curiosity in Lit
April 2023
Maybe There’s a Better Way to Think About Adaptations
The World’s First Named Author Was a Woman
Meet Enheduanna — a high priestess, princess and poet more than four millennia ago.
December 2022
Your Annual Reminder to Stop Harmonizing the Nativity
November 2022
Is there any money in writing a novel?
July 2022
A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.
May 2022
Adventures in Fiction: Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber
April 2022
Inventing Postscript, The Tech That Took The Pain Out Of Printing
November 2021
‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasure
A new book tells the story of the painstaking process to preserve the 1,200-year-old Faddan More Psalter
September 2021
Nine Years Ago, I Speculated that Dewey’s Days Were Numbered. How Far Have We Come?
August 2021
How to Fork a Book: The Radical Transformation of Publishing
March 2021
Gabriel Knight Creator Jane Jensen's Successful Second Act: Erotic Novelist
November 2020
Interview: Konstantinos Dimopoulos Discusses "Virtual Cities"
October 2020
30 Times Male Authors Showed They Barely Know Anything About Women
September 2020
Traditional publishing faces print distribution and ebook pricing ‘train wreck,’ says Kristine Kathryn Rusch
June 2020
The 10 Awful Truths about Book Publishing
The Cishet Hero Complex: Do You Want a Medal for That, Becky?
January 2020
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
Discussing bad historical takes through the lens of sci-fi literature.
August 2019
Marcel Proust's Lost Gay Love Stories to Finally Be Published
July 2019
Earliest fragment from German vagina poem found in abbey library
Erotic Poem From The Middle Ages
June 2019
Mark Coker Interviewed by Hannah Howe
December 2018
5 Ways Grimm's Fairy Tales Changed After the First Edition
August 2018
When the far right targets books, it should ring alarm bells for us all
July 2018
Virtual Cities explores the urban landscapes of 40 video games
February 2018
An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever
October 2017
Demons Licking Your Toes
An Early 20th Century Manuscript from Isfahan
Was Emily Brontё’s Heathcliff black?
March 2017
Silicon Jungle’ now free via PG: Read about Kaypro, WordStar, Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2010’ modem connection
September 2016
How My Grandmother’s Cookbook Made Me a Writer
On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World
August 2016
Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time
January 2016
8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation
What can you tell about Moby Dick and other literary masterpieces after you’ve stripped out all the words?
July 2015
Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
April 2015
The Bestseller Book That Didn’t Exist: how the author of a beloved Christmas classic pulled off the Hoax of the Century
September 2014
Smart Medieval Bookmarks
July 2014
School Libraries Are Removing Classic Literature
June 2014
Snooty Snobs Should Shut Up
On reading YA books as an adult.
April 2014
Dialogue in fiction: Part I – How to write authentic dialects and foreign accents
February 2014
How Writers Coped Without Copyright
Signs You’ve Been Reading Too Much YA
August 2013
500 New Fairy Tales Discovered in Germany
Hamlet is Banned
July 2013
'The Cuckoo's Calling' Reveals A Lot About Publishing
Is There Such A Thing As An American Novel?
May 2013
Making the Marakon Ways
My 8 year old son, Griffin, just published a fantasy novel
April 2013
Anti-Published
March 2013
A Brief History of Book Vending Machines
What Is the Business of Literature?
As technology disrupts the business model of traditional publishers, the industry must imagine new ways of capturing the value of a book.
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